Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

July 2023

The ultimate PaaS guide: build and deploy your applications faster

Building applications and managing infrastructure at the same time is a complex task. It involves managing multiple software and hardware components, plus an evolving ecosystem of dependencies and external tools. There’s also the need to keep up with changing technologies while coordinating different teams and delivering solutions to meet business goals.

SOAP vs REST-Which is Best for Integrating with N-central?

As part of my work as a Head Nerd, I have the pleasure of meeting with MSPs from all over the world. About a month ago, I was speaking with four technicians from a global MSP based out of California. They were very technically savvy, had a deep understanding of PowerShell, and had a huge emphasis on automation in their business.

What is Network Throughput: From Bytes to Blazing Speed

As network admins and IT specialists, you bear the crucial responsibility of optimizing network performance, ensuring the seamless flow of information. Network throughput lies at the heart of this endeavour, serving as a key performance metric that measures the amount of data transmitted within a given timeframe. Consider network throughput as the pulse of your network—the indicator of its vitality and efficiency.

Experience-Driven NetOps: The Integration of AppNeta and DX NetOps

AppNeta and DX NetOps enable Experience-Driven NetOps by bringing user experience and visibility across both managed and unmanaged networks into a unified console. Start with alarms and drill down to see the details of performance along the complete network path, hop by hop, including information about voice and data to understand issues over time. Use dashboards to see insights into the health of your network delivery paths across your organization and drill-in to isolate the problem with detailed reports including network experience capacity projections for ISPs.

The Secret Ingredients to Building a Thriving Company Culture - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Kunal Kushwaha, DevRel Manager at Civo, discusses the importance of company culture whilst highlighting various challenges such as cross-team communication, remote work, growth, imposter syndrome, and layoffs. Kunal shares insights from studies indicating that job seekers prioritize company culture and that retention is heavily influenced by it.

Observability: How to Boost Gaming Performance in 5 Ways

For a game to provide the best user experience, certain elements come into play. These factors can be hardware components in the user’s computer, like the CPU and GPU, operating system settings, or specific game settings. In fact, if there’s misalignment between these components and a game’s intensity, performance issues can crop up. The most common performance issues in gaming include frame rate drops, input lag, stuttering, rendering issues and network latency.

10 Best Security Tools for eCommerce

The eCommerce businesses have expanded in leaps and bounds during the COVID-19 and post-COVID situations and continue to show the same trend. People across the globe continue to shop online for their needs of clothing and apparel, home needs of groceries, home appliances, home décor, health and fitness products, sports needs, automotive accessories, jewelry, and much more. Today’s modern-day customers prefer to purchase online many of their needs with a single click through their mobiles.

Best Cloud Monitoring Tools (Open Source & More)

Cloud monitoring tools are utilized to gather an extensive range of metrics and logs from cloud resources and services. Some commonly monitored metrics include CPU utilization, memory usage, network traffic, disk I/O, latency, and response time. By monitoring these metrics, among others, it becomes possible to gain insights into resource utilization, identify performance bottlenecks, and ensure that the infrastructure operates according to expectations.